The Politics and Current Events Bestseller List

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Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 30, 2005.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Politics and Current Events
Bestseller List

1.

The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.50, 0374292884

2.

Bait and Switch
Barbara Ehrenreich, Metropolitan, $24, 0805076069

3.

The End of Faith
Sam Harris, Norton, $13.95, 0393327655

4.

Don't Think of an Elephant
George Lakoff, Chelsea Green, $10, 1931498717

5.

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
Bernard Goldberg, HarperCollins, $25.95, 0060761288

6.

The Truth (With Jokes)
Al Franken, Dutton, $25.95, 0525949062

7.

Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich, Owl, $13, 0805063897

8.

What's the Matter With Kansas?
Thomas Frank, Owl, $14, 080507774X

9.

My FBI
Louis J. Freeh, St. Martin's, $25.95, 0312321899

10.

The FairTax Book
Neal Boortz, John Linder, ReganBooks, $24.95, 0060875410

11.

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Noam Chomsky, Metropolitan, $15, 080507967X

12.

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Franklin Foer, Perennial, $13.95, 0060731427

13.

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter
Ann H. Coulter, Three Rivers, $15.95, 1400054192

14.

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Cornel West, Penguin, $15, 0143035835

15.

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer, FSG, $26, 0374299633

16.

Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution
Stephen G. Breyer, Knopf, $21, 0307263134

17.

The Republican War on Science
Chris Mooney, Basic Books, $24.95, 0465046754

18.

Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Seymour M. Hersh, Perennial, $14.95, 0060955376

19.

Moyers on America
Bill Moyers, Anchor, $13.95, 1400095360

20.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
James Howard Kunstler, Atlantic Monthly, $23, 0871138883

21.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins, Berrett-Koehler, $24.95, 1576753018

22.

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Perennial, $13.95, 0060746882

23.

The Secret Man
Bob Woodward, S&S, $23, 0743287150

24.

Bushworld
Maureen Dowd, Berkley, $15, 0425202763

25.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll, Penguin, $16, 0143034669

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